Sentences with phrase «largest consumer staples companies»

That puts PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) in an excellent spot as one of the largest consumer staples companies in the world and primes them for continued future growth.

I would guess large consumer staples companies continue to underperform, as fund managers transition to «growthier» names.

Not exact matches

For stocks, it's important to have stocks in your portfolio from a large variety of companies, including companies in different sectors or industries, such as consumer staples or materials; from companies of different sizes, such as large - cap or small - cap stocks; from companies in different countries and from companies that either have growth potential or good dividend yields.

They ranked low on the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Index: Energy shares sank 5.9 %, on average, while materials sector stocks collectively shed 5.5 % of their value; among the nine other equity sectors, only telecommunication services and consumer staples companies posted larger losses.1

Large - cap consumer staples companies are trading at an 11 % discount to the S&P 500.

The company, Britain's largest retailer, announced earlier this week that it was cutting the price of a four pint (2.27 litres) bottle of milk from # 1.39 ($ 2.32, $ 1.69) to # 1 ($ 1.67, $ 1.22) as part of drive to reduce the amount paid by consumers for staples.

And it's hard to believe that even in the worst of economic depressions that the largest companies in the food, consumer staples, railroad, utility, healthcare, and banking industries will suddenly become unprofitable and no longer have the money to pay and raise those dividends.

When looking at consumers staples, look at companies that have a large assortment of products in different sectors of consumer goods — P&G is a good example.

The chart below shows illustrates this with the consumer staple companies (Coke, Pepsi, Colgate, and Procter & Gamble) having much larger payout ratios than cyclical business (Dow and Deere) and growth companies (Visa and Roper).

We can see this dynamic by comparing the free cash flow payout ratios of a few different consumer staple companies to cyclical businesses and companies with large investment opportunities.